How many times we heard that peppered it is unhealthy. But all the same fans of spices include red burning pepper in a diet. And, as practice shows, do not suffer from any frustration at all, and even, on the contrary, note some improvement of a condition of an organism. As spicy vegetable affects health whether really it is capable to do harm as it needs to be applied and whether it has medical qualities, we will tell further.
Burning pepper
Red hot pepper — the fragrant, burning seasoning received from fruits of an exotic Capsicum frutescens bush or C. Annuum. Pods of this plant dry and later mill in powder. Burning vegetable is called still bitter or Chile (chili pepper).
The homeland of this plant — the American tropics. Under natural conditions it is low (0.5 m) a semi-bush with numerous oval leaflets. During blossoming the bush becomes covered by large light flowers.
Harvest — the extended or round fruits of a red, yellow or dark olive shade. They differ in spicy aroma and interesting taste which can change from slightly sharp to burning. Bitterness to pepper is given by internal partitions and kernels.
Today bitter pepper is grown up in any region, but the chief suppliers are Thailand and India.
Presently burning vegetable found application in pharmacology, cosmetology and cookery.
Whether you know? The most hot pepper recorded in the Guinness Book of Records — Bhut Jolokia. It is grown up in India, the State of Assam.
Structure of red pepper
Burning vegetables use both crude, and dried up. They are suitable for preparation of first courses, a pickles, sauces, salads and as a spicy component. At the same time in any kind pepper has unique characteristics.
Vitamins
All main components of burning pepper tone up and revitalize an organism. In total the trifle of this vegetable is capable to compensate a lack of an organism of vitamins (structure of 100 g):
- A — 0.6 g;
- B6 — 0.5 g;
- With — 140 mg;
- K — 14 mkg;
- PP — 0.1 mg;
- E — 0.7 mg;
- thiamine.
Besides, in vegetable there is an alkaloid capsaicin, it gives bitterness and differs in the antibacterial, warming and anesthetizing properties.
Mineral substances
Scientists proved that the range of useful elements of burning vegetable (and except vitamins, pepper is enriched still with mineral components) exceeds 40 components. So, in enough are present at pepper (concentration in 100 g of a product):
- calcium — 18.1 mg;
- selenium — 0.44 mkg;
- magnesium — 25.1 mg;
- copper — 173-174 mkg;
- sodium — 7-8 mg;
- phosphorus — 40-50 mg;
- manganese — 0.19 mkg;
- zinc — 0.25-0.3 mg;
- potassium — 320-341 mg;
- iron — 1.22 mg.
Besides, in 100 g of spicy vegetable 0.33 g of Omega-6 acid contain.
Whether you know? On Caribbean Islands, pepper is considered as fruit and eat it entirely.
Nutrition value and caloric content of a product
Even those who watch the weight can quietly use burning pepper, its caloric content is only 40 kcal on 100 g of a product.
The nutrition value of 100 g of pepper looks as follows:
- fats — 0.4 g;
- carbohydrates — 7.3 g;
- proteins — 1.9 g.
Separately about advantage of burning vegetable
All components which burning vegetable contains differently affect a female and male body.
For men
Hot spice helps a strong half of mankind very positively — improves potency.
Pine nuts, pumpkin sunflower seeds, ginger, carrots, black radish, milk, nutmeg are also useful to male health.
For women
Consumption of burning spice renders such effects:
- adjusts a menstrual cycle;
- protects from infectious diseases of an urinogenital system;
- serves as prevention of ovarian cancer.
Whether it is possible to give red pepper
Considering causticity of this vegetable, at once there is a question: whether people can use it with weak or especially sensitive organism.
To pregnant women
In moderate quantities (overconsumption can lead to an abortion) hot pepper is not harmful to this category. And in the Asian territory the pregnant women very actively use it.
It is useful for future mummies to use pistachios, a Brussels sprout, cottage cheese, apples, dried apricots, linen porridge, peaches, tomato and garnet juice, red beans.
Feeding
In the period of a lactation this vegetable (including in a ground look) is contraindicated.
The point is that causticity of this product freely gets into breast milk and can do harm to weak digestive system of the baby.
To children
The moderate amount of burning pepper to children will not do much harm. Even opposite, will help to strengthen immunity, to improve brain activity and to protect from various infections. Besides, consumption of this vegetable will allow to keep health of teeth, will strengthen nervous system and sight.
Nutritionists say that this pepper can be entered into the child's diet from 10-12 years, since a small amount.
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Rules of the choice and storage of burning pepper
First of all, upon purchase of this seasoning it is necessary to pay attention to packing. It has to be dense, tight, but not paper.
Besides, color has to be rather bright — from bright orange to dark red, but not pale.
Important! The dimness of spice speaks about its bad quality.
The correct storage of this spice does not require any special conditions — rather just tight packing. However, for maintaining useful qualities the place has to be dark and cool. It is also worth noting that tastes can at the correct storage remain several years.
Fresh vegetable also has to differ in a bright coloring, to be dense, without wrinkles and smooth. In the freezer it is possible to store it year, and in the fridge — not longer than 14 days.
Use of useful properties for treatment
Was considered earlier that admirers of hot pepper do harm to the stomachs and an organism generally. However practice and the last researches proved that this burning vegetable is capable to cure of many illnesses.
Cold
The moderate use of sharp fruits perfectly stimulates the system of blood circulation and has curative effect on a respiratory system. Therefore it is successfully applied at treatment of cold as sudorific and expectorant means and also as the metabolism regulator.
Important! Burning pepper quite seriously irritates mucous and skin.
At catarrhal diseases it is recommended to use spirit pepper brandy inside, and as a pulverizing pepper, vegetable oil tincture and kerosene is cooked. From a sore throat such structure will help: ½ teaspoons of pepper, on the 4th teaspoons of honey and water to mix and drink solution on a teaspoon twice a day.
Dry cough
Useful qualities of hot pepper and for a phlegm otkhozhdeniye are used. For this purpose one pod is crushed and mixed with honey (1:1). Eat this mix several times in day on a teaspoon. It is possible to wash down with water.
We advise to read about useful properties of different types of honey: meadow, forest, flower, mountain, akatsiyevy, buckwheat, sunflower, chestnut, lime, dyagilevy.
For treatment of dry cough it is possible to use such recipe: To fill in 60 g of the crushed pepper with wine (of course, natural) and to bring to a condition of boiling. The received drink to filter and drink hot 3 once a day.
Lack of appetite and general breakdown
Fresh fruits of pepper include twice more vitamin C, than a lemon. Therefore its use stimulates production of endorphins which not only make active the immune system, but also help to reduce pain and to improve blood circulation. In a different way endorphins are called happiness hormones as they help to struggle with a stress.
This vegetable is capable and to improve appetite. Having anti-inflammatory effect, he struggles with infections in intestines, reduces painful symptoms and discomfort. Besides, as seasoning can oppose as means diarrhea and to clean intestines from rotting products. For increase in appetite such recipe is recommended: 25 g of the crushed pepper are filled in with 200 ml of alcohol and infuses in the dark place of 10-14 days. The received structure is drunk after a meal till 10-20 of drops 2-3 times a day.
Cosmetic properties
Burning vegetable stopped being just seasoning for a long time and became an irreplaceable component in preparation of various cosmetic medicines.
About application in cosmetology
Unique properties of pepper adopted at preparation of cosmetics:
- in shampoos — for stimulation of growth of hair and improvement of their state;
- in toothpaste — for reduction of bleeding and strengthening of gums;
- in hand creams — for strengthening of a nail plate;
- in anti-cellulite means — for combustion of fat.
Read also about application for appearance a hair of a camomile, beet, olive oil, vitamins.
Recipes of masks for hair
Cosmetologists could not pass such property of burning pepper as blood circulation stimulation therefore actively apply it as prevention of a hair loss and to restoration of a healthy state. We will tell only about several masks:
- Infusion on alcohol. Properties: blood inflow strengthening, food follicles. Such means in drugstores is on sale, but if desired it is possible to prepare houses. Ingredients: 100 ml of clean vodka without additives (it is possible cognac), 1 pod of pepper. Vegetable is crushed, located in glass capacity and is filled in with vodka. So infuses in the darkened place of 10-14 days. To avoid burns, the received mix before application is diluted with vegetable oil (2:1). The received tincture is rubbed in roots of hair, from above cover the head with a film and warmed (a towel, a cap). Hold 2 hours (if burning becomes intolerable, then it is less) and wash away shampoo. A course — 1-2 times a week.
- Vitamin and pepper. Is suitable for the weakened, brittle hair. Several capsules of A and E vitamins mix with 2 tablespoons of pepper tincture (the recipe — as in the first option) and apply on roots of hair (the head has to be washed up). After that hair wrap up and hold 2 hours. Such sparing option can be repeated every other day.
Important! Pepper masks need to be done, observing precautionary measures: at hit it can provoke their fragility to hair, and on face skin causes burns.
As red pepper helps to lose weight
Influence of capsaicin helps to support healthy weight. This substance simply works: intensifies blood circulation, regulates metabolism, accelerates fat splitting process, removes toxins. Those who wants to lose weight are recommended to take pepper tincture. She prepares simply: the crushed vegetable is filled in with alcohol or vodka (1:5) and 7-10 days infuse. Three times a day are accepted before food.
Nutritionists also claim that this vegetable can just be included in a daily diet.
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Culinary properties
The fresh or processed fruits of pepper are added to sauces, home-made sausages, soups, preservation, national dishes. In a ground look they can fill salads, matsun, kefirs, curdled milk.
Important! Ground burning pepper is recommended to be included in a dish in 5-10 minutes prior to the end of preparation.
This seasoning is well combined with other spices:
- garlic;
- coriander;
- bay leaf (including in powder);
- thyme;
- basil.
Whether ground pepper is useful?
Experts are sure that integral fruits bring much more benefit, in the course of a grinding the considerable amount of capsaicin is lost. Therefore, such spice it is possible to impact only juicy relish, but to lose the food importance.
Possible harm and contraindications
Despite a set of merits, spicy vegetable it will be useful not to all. For example, you should not use it at such pathologies:
- the increased acidity;
- diabetes;
- diseases of a liver and intestines;
- gastritis and stomach ulcer.
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At all these states there can be a weight in a stomach and worsen activity of digestive tract owing to what work of digestive system will not take place in the put rhythm. Besides, inflammation of a mucous membrane will only aggravate a disease, having made it chronic.
It is worth treating also carefully this spice the patient with violation of a warm rhythm, stenocardia and arrhythmia. At preparation of dishes with burning pepper it is desirable to wash carefully after process hands and ware and in any time not to concern mucous.
Important! It is vain to wash down accidentally swallowed burning pepper with water. It is more correct to extinguish its aggression milk, a lemon or to jam a bread piece.
It is not recommended to apply means with burning pepper of external appointment in a case:
- tendencies to an allergy;
- presence of small scratches and wounds;
- hypersensibility of skin;
- problems with veins.
About advantage of pepper
There are also other types of this vegetable which have no so burning taste, but have the useful properties.